Lake's first 'Champ-hearing' recorded

Champ, the famed "monster" of Lake Champlain, might be for real after all.

Researchers working in the Button Bay area of the lake last month say highly sensitive sonar equipment on their boat captured underwater sounds
similar to those emitted by a Beluga whale or dolphin.

"What we got was a biological creature creating biosonar at a level that only a few underwater species can do," said Elizabeth von Muggenthaler,
president of Fauna Communications Research, a Hillsborough, N.C., firm that studies how animals communicate.

"Von Muggenthaler said she hoped her discovery would not cause a spate of ill-advised Champ hunting on the lake.

"It is important to remember that, if there is indeed a creature out there, it is protected by New York and Vermont law," she said. "The best thing
people could do for this creature, if it exists, is leave it alone."

A principle meriting universal application, except in the case of bottom-dwelling 'president' George W Bush.

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